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Dr. Melvin Robert Link, Lieutenant, (MC), US Navy, served from 1942-1947, during World War II and beyond. He was a medical officer on the USS Walke (DD 723) destroyer from 1944-1945, and wrote his impressions of the war on a semi-daily basis. This journal covers the American invasions of Japanese-held islands including the Philippines and Okinawa. Link also records the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the reaction on board the ship to that and the Japanese surrender. Printed items have been tipped-in. For this document, the page was scanned first with the tipped-in item, and then scanned again with it removed so the writing underneath is revealed. A transcription is downloadable here (as a Word file; do not use the IA-generated 'Full Text' file).
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Donated to the Office of Medical History by the Link family. Other material related to Dr. Link and the reunion of the Walke's crew is available at the Office. After the war, Link transferred to the US Naval Hospital Philadelphia, and ended his naval career at the US Naval Hospital Brooklyn.
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